My “Proposed” Reading List for 2016

With the New Year upon us, I thought I might share what books I have on deck for 2016. Keep in mind I am a writer and amateur historian, so my “professional reading” tends to have a  very heavy emphasis on military history, in particular WW2 and the Cold War. My leisure and fiction reading tends to gravitate that way also, but I also like a good spy novel as well. I also try to squeeze one or two Pulitzer Prize winning novels in there too.

I have an entirely separate section for World War Two Books, and these books change frequently depending on what I am studying or what catches my attention. For now, this is what I have on deck.

Fiction

• The Revenant (Punke)
• The Martian (Weir)
• Ghost Fleet (Singer)
• All the Light We Cannot See (Doerr)
• The Orphan Master’s Son (Johnson)
• The Lions Gate (Pressfield)
• Red Storm Rising (Clancy)
• Red Sparrow (Matthews)
• Assassins Gallery (Robbins)
• Command Authority (Clancy)
• Jeff Shaara World War Two Quadrilogy (4 books)
• Bernard Cornwell Saxon Tales (On Book 4, Sword Song)
• Agincourt (Cornwell)
• 1356 (Cornwell)

Non-Fiction

• Gulag (Applebaum)
• Iron Curtain (Applebaum)
• A People’s Tragedy (Figes)
• Days of Rage (Burrough)
• Future Crimes (Goodman)
• The Blue Tent Sky (Aiken)
• Dead Wake (Larson)
• The Billion Dollar Spy (Hoffman)
• Disciples: WW2 Missions of the CIA Directors (Waller)
• The New Spymasters (Grey)
• Hubris: The Tragedy of War in the Twentieth Century (Horne)
• The Fall of the Ottomans (Rogan)
• The Republic of Pirates (Woodard)
• The Unknown Story: Mao (Chang)
• Revolution in Texas (Johnson)
• Lone Star Nation (Brand)
• The Ghost of Cannae (O’Connell)
• Moscow 1812 (Zamoyski)
• Napoleons War (Esdaile)
• The Greatest Knight (Asbridge)
• Jerusalem (Montefiore)
• If By Sea (Daughan)
• Small Wars, Faraway Places (Burleigh)
• All the Shah’s Men (Kinzer)
• War Made New (Boot)
• Crusade (Atkinson)
• The Great War of our Time ( Morell)
• Fiasco (Ricks)
• Cobra II (Gordon)
• American Spartan (Tyson)
• Agent Storm (Storm)
• Soul of Battle (Hanson)
• The Savior Generals (Hanson)
• The Very Best Men (Thomas)
• Legacy of Ashes (Weiner)
• The Good Spy (Ames)
• The Zhivago Affair (Finn)
• A Spy Among Friends (Macintyre)
• Company Man (Rizzo)
• The Manchurian President (Klein)
• Body of Secrets (Bamford)
• Shadow Warrior (Woods)
• Safe for Democracy (Prados)
• Ike’s Spies (Ambrose)
• Blacklisted by History (Evans)

World War Two

• Richard J. Evans Trilogy

1. The Coming of the Third Reich,
2. The Third Reich in Power
3. The Third Reich at War

• Carlo D’Este World War Two Leaders Biography Trilogy

1. Eisenhower: A Soldiers Life
2. Warlord: The Life of Winston Churchill at War
3. Patton: A Genius for War

Stay Sharp, Stay Alert and Stay Dangerous!